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Expertos Invitados

Melissa Manwaring is a former practicing attorney, Melissa Manwaring is the Director of Curriculum Development at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, where she develops negotiation-related teaching materials and consults with clients on course design. She teaches negotiation at the F.W. Olin School of Management at Babson College and serves as Negotiation Journal 's associate editor for education. She has previously taught at the Simmons College School for Health Studies as well as the Program on Negotiation's Seminar on Negotiation and Dispute Resolution.

Melissa originally studied negotiation theory at Harvard Law School with Roger Fisher and Bruce Patton and was trained as a mediator through the Harvard Mediation Program. For over six years, she practiced commercial litigation and intellectual property counseling in the San Francisco Bay Area, working with a largely high-tech client base at the law firms of Pillsbury Madison & Sutro (now Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman) and Fenwick & West. She has mediated dozens of state court cases and online commercial disputes.

As an independent negotiation trainer and consultant, Melissa has taught negotiation theory and skills to thousands of students and clients from around the world, including executives, attorneys, public servants, educators, law students, undergraduate students, and middle-school students. Her clients have ranged from corporations such as Fidelity Investments and the Bank of Norway, to nonprofit organizations such as the Red Cross and Save the Children, to educational institutions such as Harvard University , Connecticut College, Boston College , and numerous public school districts. Melissa holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School , an M.Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a B.A. from the University of Illinois .

Conferencia: Negotiation in the Classroom and Education at the Bargaining Table: How collaborative theories of negotiation and education might learn from each other.

Taller: Provoking Ethical Inquiry through Negotiation: A Learning and Teaching Workshop




Lee Dunn is a lecturer and academic developer at the Teaching and Learning Centre. She joined the Centre full-time in 2002, after being associated with the Centre for a number of years, having been seconded from the School of Social and Workplace Development (SaWD) in 1999 half-time to work on an externally funded project that investigated assessment practices at Southern Cross, and again in 2001 to work as an academic developer part-time.

In the year 2000 Lee took leave from Southern Cross and spent the time working in a learning development role at Oxford Brookes University in the UK . Lee is interested in the processes of teaching and learning in higher education from the points of view of both the academic teacher and the student, assessment as a way to focus and enhance learning, and the professional development of teachers in higher education.

Conferencia: Assessment and evaluation. Issues and innovation.

Taller: Assessment as a powerful tool for learning.



 

Daniel Alberto Giorgetti es Licenciado en Historia y Master en Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), cursando actualmente el Doctorado en la Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires. Posee experiencia en temas como aprendizaje-servicio, elaboración de proyectos sociales, historia contemporánea, movimientos sociales y protagonismo juvenil. Ha dictado cursos y capacitaciones en estas temáticas para instituciones educativas y organizaciones sociales del ámbito nacional y latinoamericano. Asimismo ha realizado varias publicaciones.

Actualmente es Coordinador del Área de Organizaciones Sociales del Programa Nacional Educación Solidaria, en el Ministerio de Educación, Ciencia y Tecnología de Argentina, Coordinador de Capacitación en CLAYSS (Centro Latinoamericano de Aprendizaje y Servicio Solidario) y Profesor en la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires.

Conferencia: La pedagogía del aprendizaje-servicio y la construcción de ciudadanía

Taller: Diseño de un curso con la técnica de Aprendizaje-Servicio